Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

English writer

Lived from: 1874 - 1936

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 29 may 1874 Died: 14 june 1936

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  • I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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  • I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals…
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  • I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
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  • If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
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  • If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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  • If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
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  • If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
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  • If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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  • In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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  • It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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  • It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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  • It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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  • It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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  • Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.
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  • Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.
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  • Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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  • Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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  • Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
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  • Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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  • Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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